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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 2m

Sen. Rosen draws a line from Trump and Carr chilling speech to the economic harms from this administration threatening the free speech even of people visiting the country. That hurts liberty and hurts our economy too.
#SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 5m

After yelling about how broadcasting doesn’t matter anymore, Moreno kind of gets Berenson to talk about the evils of BigPharma. And throws in some misgendering & commentary on Jimmy Kimmel’s talents — a topic that all lawmakers must spend taxpayer dollars on. #SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 8m

Sen. Moreno with just a bizarre, incoherent attack here on every front. I have seen a lot of nonsense from a Senate dais, but this one is up there. He wants Kimmelman fomenting student protest, and wants accountability for actions taken in 2020 under Trump. #SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 12m

Ranking Member Cantwell notes that government concern about COVID disinfo was not just on vaccine mandates, but also was consumer protection against medical quackery and incredibly harmful “remedies.” #SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 15m

Sen. Fischer steers the conversation about AI fakery back to acknowledging that there have to be protections for parody and satire too. Volokh agrees that no algorithm can get that right.
#SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 16m

Despite the political toxins brought into this room by one witness, it’s actually shaping up pretty well.
Interesting to hear Berenson in this room defend #Section230, or at least note taking it away could be seen as government coercion in violation of the #FirstAmendment. #SenateCommerce #FCC #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 19m

Berenson pretty funny here, when he says secret government coercion is even more problematic.
“I don’t like what Brendan Carr did, but at least he did it in public!”
😂😂
#SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 24m

Senator Klobuchar a little off topic but really powerful here, countering the evil narrative that somehow it’s only leftists that are violent, as she talks about threats against her and the murder of Minnesota state lawmakers, and many others gunned down.
#SenateCommerce #FirstAmendment #FCC #1A

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bergmayer @bergmayer.net · 1d

Apple removing ICEBlock, a legal app for monitoring ICE activity, from its app store at the behest of the federal government mirrors what it has done in other regimes. www.iceblock.app

From IceBlock site: ICEBlock Removed
Following pressure from the Trump administration, Apple has removed ICEBlock from the App Store.
We are incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move. Apple has claimed they received information from law enforcement that ICEBlock served to harm law enforcement officers. This is patently false.

ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution.

We are determined to fight this with everything we have. Our mission has always been to protect our neighbors from the terror this administration continues to reign down on the people of this nation. We will not be deterred. We will not stop. #resist

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 30m

So Senator Schmitt is pinch-hitting for Cruz at Cruz’s own hearing.
Schmitt asks Kimmelman if he is CEO of Public Knowledge, which he left in 2019. 🙃
Then Schmitt gets Davis to talk again about actions in summer 2020 — when Trump was President!
#SenateCommerce #FirstAmendment #FCC #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 33m

Congress should update the Communications Act to prevent Carr’s bullying, and antitrust alone isn’t enough to deal with modern media consolidation at places like Google and Meta, or at Skydance as it buys up Paramount and looks for Warner and TikTok too. #SenateCommerce #FirstAmendment #FCC #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 37m

Gene Kimmelman cites not only Carr’s #FCC threatening broadcasters for speech Trump doesn’t like, but also the FCC’s plan to let Nexstar control 265 TV stations reaching 80% of the country. Lack of competition hurts diversity of viewpoint and free speech too. #SenateCommerce #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 40m

Did Sean Davis just cite actions taken *before* the 2020 election as examples of Biden censorship?? Who was president before the 2020 election, I wonder? 🤔
#SenateCommerce #FCC #FirstAmendment #1A

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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 49m

Prof. Volokh of @volokhc.bsky.social, testifying at the #SenateCommerce hearing on supposed censorship, says coercion — like #FCC Brendan Carr threatening entities he regulates — looks like coercion in violation of the #FirstAmendment. While government persuasion on disinfo may *not* be a #1A harm.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 4h

The central figure in Trump's push to silence Kimmel et al is now in full damage control, trying to rewrite the history of what just happened, while offloading onto Democrats blame for his unconstitutional campaign of censorship.

Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social exposes all of Carr's lies:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

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Julio Ricardo Varela @julito77.bsky.social · 17h

New Pressing Issues piece by @mattfieldwood.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social

Another Carr Wreck
How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

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Craig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social · 17h

New Pressing Issues w/ debut of @mattfieldwood.bsky.social on the hypocrisy and dishonesty of a certain FCC chairman and South Park guest star.

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 18h

Last week Trump lackey Brendan Carr, went into full damage control before a panel of disbelieving journalists.

But no amount of dodging and dishonesty could save Carr from the truth, or salvage his reputation as Trump's go-to censor at the FCC.

@mattfieldwood.bsky.social has the receipts:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 18h

Last week Trump lackey Brendan Carr, went into full damage control before a panel of disbelieving journalists.

But no amount of dodging and dishonesty could save Carr from the truth, or salvage his reputation as Trump's go-to censor at the FCC.

@mattfieldwood.bsky.social has the receipts:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 21h

On Oct 7, @pressfreedom.bsky.social is calling on the international community to speak out against unlawful attacks on journalists in Gaza where hundreds of journalists have been killed (273), injured (152) or imprisoned (92) in the two years since this recent wave of violence began.

Israel-Gaza War - Committee to Protect Journalists

Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted, and murder...

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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · Sep 5

"It’s easy to understand why CBS’ newsroom staff are in full meltdown."

Nepo-billionaire David Ellison's plan to acquire Bari Weiss’ right-leaning outlet The Free Press (not us) isn't about financial gain - it's a signal to the anti-mainstream media crowd that CBS News is being reshaped.

A 🧵...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up?
I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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